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Pain Treatments


Padda Institute Center for Interventional Pain Management offers a number of minimally invasive pain treatment options to help you find relief. Our pain-relieving treatments have been demonstrated to be successful. Our goal is to improve each patient's overall health and, as a result, increase their quality of life. At Padda Institute, we feel your pain, so we've made it our mission to thoroughly identify and treat all chronic pain issues.

Conditions We Treat

ANXIETY, PTSD AND CHRONIC PAIN

Many of our patient’s have suffered significant trauma, either psychological or physical, which maintains a chronic high level of anxiety, and they perseverate on these past events as if they are the active present.
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DIABETES AND NEUROPATHY

Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy (DPN) is the most common complication of diabetes, and often presents as a distal, symmetric, sensorimotor neuropathy. In the United States, 26.8 million people are affected by diabetes; by the year 2030, that number is predicted to increase to approximately 35.9 million people.
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MIGRAINE HEADACHES

Headache is among the principal reasons for physician visits and a common cause of emergency department visits. The costs of tests and treatments for headache are not insubstantial, and when unwarranted, they
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COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME (CRPS) OR REFLEX SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY (RSD)

“Of all the chronic neuropathic pain syndromes, none has perplexed patient, clinician, and scientist more than the complex regional pain syndromes (CRPS), heretofore known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) and causalgia.”
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SERIOUS FOOT PAIN

Nearly 60% of patient’s with chronic forefoot pain presenting to a podiatry practice have surgical intervention, yet only 50-60% of them get relief of foot pain long-term and 20% get significantly worse, requiring multiple...
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SEVERE HEAD AND NECK PAIN

The goal of the Padda Institute Headache Section is to provide diagnosis and treatment that will help people who experience severe pain regain a better quality of life. (The treatment needs of patients who have occasional mild headaches are significantly different from those patients whose attacks...
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CLUSTER HEADACHE TREATMENT

Cluster Headache is a very severe form of primary headache disorder with a population, one-year prevalence of about 0.1 %. Classified as a Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalagia (TAC) (1), it is probably the second most common form of primary headache encountered by neurologists or headache specialists.
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DISKOGRAM

The disks are soft, cushion-like pads which separate the hard vertebral bones of your spine. A disk may be painful when it bulges, herniates, tears or degenerates and may cause pain in your neck, mid-back, low back and arms, chest wall, abdomen and legs.
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ELECTRODIAGNOSTICS

Electrodiagnostics (EDX) testing is used to evaluate the integrity and function of the peripheral nervous system (most cranial nerves, spinal roots, plexi, and nerves), NMJ, muscles, and the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord).
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EPIDURAL STEROID INJECTION (ESI)

Back pain affects nearly everyone at some point in their adult life. Often times the exact cause of pain is not readily apparent, as there are many factors which may contribute to a patient’s back pain, including disc disease, referred pain, as well as psychological factors.

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FACET JOINT INJECTION (ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT INJECTION)

The spine is designed to bend and turn. Along with the intervertebral discs, facet joints (also referred to as Z joints or zygapophyseal joints) enable the spine to bend and twist. Each...
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FACET JOINT RADIOFREQUENCY (RF)

A patient with primary facet pain, proven with either one or more blocks, may be a candidate for a facet rhizotomy using radiofrequency (RF). The patients selected for rhizotomy are those who are not surgical candidates and who have failed other conservative measure.
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HIP JOINT INJECTION

The hip joint is a large joint where the leg joins the pelvis, functioning as a ball and socket joint. The top of the thigh bone (the femur) is a round ball, which fits into the socket formed by a cavity in the pelvic bone. The ball is held in the socket by a grouping of ligaments that form a capsule around the joint.
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LUMBAR SYMPATHETIC NERVE BLOCK

Your body has special nerves known as sympathetic nerves in your back which ,control blood supply and sweating to your legs and feet . These nerves can be anesthetized to change the blood flow to a limb and to decrease the pain which is mediated by these sympathetic nerves...
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SACROILIAC JOINT INJECTION

The disks are soft, cushion-like pads which separate the hard vertebral bones of your spine. A disk may be painful when it bulges, herniates, tears or degenerates and may cause pain in your neck, mid-back, low back and arms, chest wall, abdomen and legs.

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SELECTIVE NERVE ROOT BLOCK

Nerve roots exit your spinal cord and form nerves that travel into your arms or legs. These nerves allow you to move your arms, chest wall, and legs. These nerve roots may become inflamed and painful due to irritation, for example, from a damaged disc or a bony spur.
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STELLATE GANGLION BLOCK

Your body has special nerves known as sympathetic nerves in your neck which ,control blood supply and sweating to your arms and hands . These nerves can be anesthetized to change the blood flow to a limb and to decrease the pain which is mediated by these sympathetic nerves...
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VERTEBROPLASTY FOR COMPRESSION FRACTURES

Bed rest and strong pain medicine are no longer the only treatments for back pain caused by compression fractures of the spine. Now there is a breakthrough minimally invasive medical procedure called percutaneous vertebroplasty that uses bone cement to fill in the spaces of a broken or crushed vertebra.
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